Roger Highfield
Museum exec, writer & visiting prof at and . Ex New Scientist Editor & Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph. Neutron bouncer
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PM admitted to hospital over virus symptoms
BBC News 5h 31 tweets
Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus.
Roger Highfield #Coronavirus: Prime Minister admitted to hospital as a precaution 5h
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human eBook: Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena, Highfield, Roger: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Amazon.co.uk 39h 1 tweets
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human eBook: Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena, Highfield, Roger: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Artificial intelligence decodes the facial expressions of mice
Nature.com 58h 5 tweets
Neuroscientists also uncover neural circuitry whose activity correlates with particular emotions.
Roger Highfield In other news, researchers use a machine-learning algorithm to decipher the seemingly inscrutable facial expressions of mice Apparently you can tell when a mouse is happy because it pulls its nose down towards its mouth, and pulls its ears and jaw forwards 9h
Structural Basis for Potent Neutralization of Betacoronaviruses by Single-domain Camelid Antibodies
bioRxiv 8d 3 tweets
The pathogenic Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) and COVID-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) have all emerged into the human population with devastating consequences. These...
Roger Highfield Did you know that antibodies from llamas could help in the fight against #coronavirus? The llama antibodies bind to the ‘spike’ proteins that coronaviruses use to enter cells... 12h
Behind the iron curtain, the final frontier: Soviet space art – in pictures
the Guardian 17h 1 tweets
A new book celebrates the cosmic visions of Russian magazine illustrators
The Dance of Life By Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield | AudioBooks.Cloud™
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A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research
How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak
Nature.com 3d 18 tweets
Wastewater testing could also be used as an early-warning sign if the virus returns.
Roger Highfield How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak 17h
‘These are answers we need.’ WHO plans global study to discover true extent of coronavirus infections
Science | AAAS 3d 7 tweets
Solidarity II will combine antibody data from around the world
Roger Highfield ‘These are answers we need.’ WHO plans global study to discover true extent of coronavirus infections 27h
Quiz With Seagull : 8pm Saturday 4th April 2020
YouTube 39h 2 tweets
Bobby Seagull is appearing on BBC One Celebrity Mastermind at 6.25pm Saturday 4th April 2020 (topics "England at World Cups since 1990"). Later, at 8pm his v...
Today - 04/04/2020 - BBC Sounds
BBC Music - BBC 36h 1 tweets
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Roger Highfield Here's on (1.15) how he expects #COVID19 to plateau in 7-10 days, followed by slow decay, perhaps faster, depending on how we behave. More on computer models More #coronascience 36h
Roger Highfield | Science Museum Group
Sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk 36h 1 tweets
Roger Highfield Here's on (1.15) how he expects #COVID19 to plateau in 7-10 days, followed by slow decay, perhaps faster, depending on how we behave. More on computer models More #coronascience 36h
Advice from Other Sources
Epcresilience.com 37h 1 tweets
Why what we think we know about the UK's coronavirus death toll is wrong
the Guardian 42h 17 tweets
The figure we are all watching is likely to be an under-report, which is skewing the curve
Roger Highfield Why what we think we know about the UK's coronavirus death toll is wrong The figure we are all watching is likely to be an under-report of the grim reality 40h
Robo-turtles in fish farms reduce fish stress
EurekAlert! 40h 1 tweets
Robotic turtles used for salmon farm surveillance could help prevent fish escapes. The 'turtle robots' are the first steps in a technology that improves the monitoring of sea cages.
Roger Highfield Robo-turtles in fish farms reduce fish stress 40h
Teasmades: From clockwork cuppas to the smart home
Science Museum 5d 1 tweets
The story of this retro machine goes back over 100 years—and forward into our automated future.
Scientists have turned the structure of the coronavirus into music
Science | AAAS 52h 3 tweets
“Sonification” could help researchers identify binding sites for new drugs
Roger Highfield #Coronavirus chorus: scientists have turned the molecular structure of the #Covid19 virus into music 42h
A highly conserved cryptic epitope in the receptor-binding domains of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV
Science 59h 9 tweets
The outbreak of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has now become a pandemic, but there is currently very little understanding of the antigenicity of the virus. We therefore determined the crystal structure of CR3022, a neutralizing antibody...
Roger Highfield Molecular structure has been unravelled of a neutralising antibody previously obtained from a recovering SARS patient that also binds to SARS-CoV-2 – another molecular insights that could inform the design of a #COVID-19 vaccine 58h
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks
Nature Medicine 3d 79 tweets
A study of 246 individuals with seasonal respiratory virus infections randomized to wear or not wear a surgical face mask showed that masks can significantly reduce detection of coronavirus and influenza virus in exhaled breath and may help...
Roger Highfield Face masks could indeed prevent transmission of human #coronaviruses and influenza viruses from infected patients 3d
The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma | Ara Darzi
the Guardian 4d 7 tweets
AI companies and scientists are cooperating, but they desperately need access to pharmaceutical companies’ data, says Ara Darzi, director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation
Roger Highfield The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma - says Prof the Lord Ara Darzi 3d
Turning cells into computers with protein logic gates
HS NewsBeat - EurekAlert! 3d 1 tweets
New artificial proteins have been created to function as molecular logic gates. Like their electronic counterparts in computers, these biochemical tools can be used to program the behavior of complex systems, such as gene regulation inside human...
Roger Highfield Turning cells into computers with logic gates: smart proteins that respond to signals in predetermined ways & function inside human cells by switching genes on & off 3d